Students of major disasters often talk of the concept of ‘disaster incubation’ – a period of cumulating failures on the part of operators and regulators which eventually overwhelm even-multilayered safety systems and lead to tragic outcomes. No better term could …

June 28, 2013 The Editors The Globe and Mail 444 Front Street Toronto, Ontario Re: Nuclear power as “emission-free” energy. Two recent articles in the Globe (“McGuinty’s green energy ‘vision’ starts to fade” and “Ontario gets two nuclear options”) have …